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Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith
Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith
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The Executioners Sing, Joseph L. Hoffmann
The Executioners Sing, Joseph L. Hoffmann
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Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
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This book reports empirical studies on 18 different areas of substantive criminal law in which the study results showing ordinary people’s judgments of justice are compared to the governing legal doctrine to highlight points of agreement and disagreement. The book also identifies trends and patterns in agreement and disagreement and discusses the implications for the formulation of criminal law. The chapters include:
Chapter 1. Community Views and the Criminal Law (Introduction; An Overview; Why Community Views Should Matter; Research Methods)
Chapter 2. Doctrines of Criminalization: What Conduct Should Be Criminal? (Objective Requirements of Attempt (Study 1); Creating a Criminal Risk …
Equal Protection And Sexual Orientation, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Equal Protection And Sexual Orientation, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Equality is the thread running through the fundamental liberties enshrined in our Constitution. ... Equality, expressed in Art 12 of the [Singapore] Constitution, is also a specific right enforceable by the court. The difficulty comes in applying this deceptively simple concept to real-life situations. ... In considering the validity of legislation, Singapore and Malaysian courts have generally favored rational review, a modest conception of equal protection, unlike their American counterparts which have adopted a more expansive reading in the form of strict and intermediate review. This article examines how these three levels of equal protection review operate, and argues that …